Baseball History on January 18

Major League Baseball Events on January 18 | Baseball Almanac

Baseball history on January 18, including a list of every Major League baseball player born on January 18, a list of every Major League baseball player who died on January 18, a list of every Major League baseball player who made their big league debut on January 18, and a list of every Major League baseball player whose final big league game was on January 18.
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"No matter how your mind works, baseball reaches out to you. If you're an emotional person, baseball asks for your heart. If you are a thinking man or a thinking woman, baseball wants your opinion. Whether you are left-brain or right-brain, Type A or Type Z, whether your mind is bent towards mathematics or toward history or psychology or geometry, whether you are young or old, baseball has its way of asking for you. If you are a reader, there is always something new to read about baseball, and always something old. If you are a sedentary person, a TV watcher, baseball is on TV; if you always have to be going somewhere, baseball is somewhere you can go. If you are a collector, baseball offers you a hundred things that you can collect. If you have children, baseball is something you can do with children; if you have parents and cannot talk to them, baseball is something you can still talk to them about." - Baseball Historian Bill James in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (Free Press Publishing, 06/13/2003, "Part 1: The Game", Page 5)

Baseball History on January 18

Major League Baseball Events on January 18

1855Charlie Eden1905Fergy Malone
1874Zeke Wrigley1911Dick Scott
1884Ralph Caldwell1912John Russ
1894Danny Clark1933Dan Marion
1895George Hesselbacher1939Cliff Heathcote
1896Babe Twombly1945Justin Fitzgerald
1898John Woods1945Gene Lansing
1899Eddie Moore1946Reeve McKay
1903Nolen Richardson1946Dave Wright
1904Len Koenecke1955Phil Morrison
1911Pinky May1961Gene Woodburn
1926Bob Scherbarth1969Ray Kennedy
1931Laurin Pepper1970Jack Richardson
1932Mike Fornieles1974Pete Appleton
1938Curt Flood1982Bob Barrett
1941Mickey McGuire1982Johnny Tobin
1942Dick Estelle1984Leo Kiely
1944Carl Morton1989Buzz Clarkson
1945Tom Harrison1991Herb Harris
1945Rich Severson2008Al Montreuil
1946Billy Grabarkewitz2011George Crowe
1950Marvin Lane2011Al Grunwald
1950Bill Sharp2017Red Adams
1954Scott McGregor2017Dick Starr
1955Dave Geisel2021Don Sutton
1960Gibson Alba2022Vic Roznovsky
1961John Bohnet
1963Bill Sampen
1964Brady Anderson
1969Kevin McGehee
1970Mike Bertotti
1972Keith Glauber
1972Mike Lieberthal
1977Franklin Nunez
1978Brian Falkenborg
1979Wandy Rodriguez
1981Brandon Fahey
1984Justin Thomas
1988Luis Jimenez
1989Michael Pineda
1990Anthony Bemboom
1990Brett Lawrie
1990Gift Ngoepe
1991Kyle Martin
1991Alex Mejia
1992Jaycob Brugman
1993Jarlín García
1994Diego Castillo
1994Max Fried
2000Lyon Richardson
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Players Born on, Died on, Debut on, Finished on January 18

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Baseball history on January 18 includes a total of Major League baseball players born that day of the year, Major League baseball players who died on that date, baseball players who made their Major League debut on that date, and Major League baseball players who appeared in their final game that date.

On January 18 in Baseball History...

  • 1947 - The Pirates buy first baseman Hank Greenberg from the Tigers for a reported $25,000 to $35,000. Greenberg led the A.L. with 44 home runs in 1946.
  • 1950 - Indians pitcher Bob Feller, coming off a lackluster 15-14 season, takes a $20,000 salary cut to $45,000. The pay cut is Feller's own suggestion.
  • 1973 - Orlando Cepeda signs with the Boston Red Sox, making him the first player signed by a team specifically to be a designated hitter.

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Bill James, on the same page of the same book we used at the top of this page, said, "But as I began to do research on the history of baseball (in order to discuss the players more intelligently) I began to feel that there was a history a baseball that had not been written at that time, a history of good and ordinary players, a history of being a fan, a history of games that meant something at the time but mean nothing now." To that end, I have created Baseball Almanac. A site to worship baseball. A site by a fan who is trying to tell the history of good and ordinary baseball players.